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Biblia Sacra Latina, Versio Vulgata, ca. 1250

It is usually difficult to distinguish the miniature or portable Bibles made by
the young Dominican friars in England from those written in France. At times the colophon
tells us that a book was executed in the Sorbonne, the newly founded school of theology in
Paris, or in the University Center at Oxford. The Dominican order was founded in 1216 A.D. and
soon spread all over Europe. About 1219 A.D., King Alexander of Scotland met St. Dominic in
Paris and persuaded him to send some members of his brotherhood to Scotland. From here they
spread to England. The original master text was carelessly transcribed again and again. It
may even have been incorrectly copied from the Alcuinian text written for Charlemagne.
Therefore, 'correctories' had to be made. In the latter part of the XIIIth century, Roger
Bacon condemned unsparingly manuscripts which, although they were skillfully and beautifully
written, transmitted inaccuracies of text.